RAE 2001

Summary

Imperial College rose to second place out of 148 universities in the 2001 RAE. Only 0.01 of a point separated the College from the top spot in a result which saw 75 per cent of staff, the highest in the country, achieve 5*.

The rating scale in 2001 ranges from 1 (lowest) to 5* (highest) and denotes that the majority of assessed work is rated as being of an international or national level of excellence.

Former TH Huxley School (part) now Environmental Science and Technology

Summary of the table's contents

For the clinical medicine Units of Assessment (UoAs), ratings were awarded to the areas of work referred to the sub-panels of these UoAs. The ratings for each of these sub-panel submissions are given below. Note that the ratings for the entire submision are given above and that not all of the research submitted to one of these UoAs was referred to a sub-panel.